35 Bible Verses about heroes

Woe unto those that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore sons to them, the same became mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

to the saints that are in the earth and to the excellent: all my delight is towards them.

And they shall be as mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight because the LORD shall be with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

How do ye say, We are mighty and strong men for the war?

After him restored Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, the prince of half the region of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David and to the pool that was made and unto the house of the mighty.

And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

the mighty man and the man of war, the judge and the prophet, the fortune-teller and the ancient,

Remember your pastors, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation:

I have commanded my sanctified ones; I have also called my mighty ones for my anger that they might rejoice with my glory.

Why dost thou boast of evil, O strong man? The mercy of God is day by day.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off and believing them and embracing them and confessing that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he that rules his spirit than he that takes a city.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

The LORD shall go forth as a giant; he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war; he shall cry out a battle cry; he shall prevail against his enemies.

Therefore David ran and stood upon the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and slew him and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw their giant was dead, they fled.

Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of great acts, of Kabzeel; he slew two lions of Moab; he also went down and slew a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the young men.

Proclaim this among the Gentiles: Prepare war; wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

The vile person shall no longer be called liberal, nor the greedy said to be bountiful.

And Jesus responded unto him, The principal of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, The Lord our God, the Lord is one;

But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.

Behold, their ambassadors shall cry without: the messengers of peace shall weep bitterly.

but they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered from infirmities, were made valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of foreign enemies;

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of prudence, nor yet grace to men of eloquence; but time and chance happens to them all.

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning that they may continue their drunkenness; that continue until night until wine inflames them!

And these all, approved by testimony of faith, received not the promise,

women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;

But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not dishonoured except in his own country and among his own kin and in his own house.

And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthae, of David also and Samuel and of the prophets,

Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, said, and the man who was raised up high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet cantor of Israel, said,